National Biennial Conferences

Conference 2017

The 2017 biennial MHSA Conference held in South Australia was a
joint effort by the South Australian Branch in partnership with
the University Of South Australia’s Narratives of War (NOW).
This combined conference with the theme of “Generations of War"
embraced not only World War 1 but a century of service
by the nation’s armed forces. This was conducted at the
University’s City West Campus in Adelaide on 17-19 November
2017.

The Federal President of the Military Historical Society of
Australia, Mr Rohan Goyne, sent the following comments to organisers
of the conference soon after the conference:

Hello Mike, Paul and SA Branch Colleagues

I must congratulate the SA Branch of the Society for its role in
delivering a great joint conference with the University of SA. The
depth and breath of the speaker program which had at one stage three
parallel sessions was truly impressive. I recall asking Paul and
Tony Harris in 2015 about the willingness of the SA Branch to host
the next conference for the Society and I was pleased that the idea
was not immediately dismissed and indeed the conference last weekend
sets a new standard for future MHSA Conferences through a networked
and collaborative approach with other partners which Federal Council
has been pursuing for the past five years.